Joel's Journey: Mercy's Farm Baby Party.....I'm 3 Now!!!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Mercy's Farm Baby Party.....I'm 3 Now!!!

Mercy's "Farm Baby Party!!!" As you can see it was all about the farm and all the baby animals we are having. Farm cakes, Farm Animal Sugar Cookies, Moo- llennium Crunch Blue Bell Ice-cream and Fun!!! She's busy now playing........

7 comments:

-stephanie- said...: What a fun party! Happy 3rd Birthday Mercy. Hope you had the best day ever.; March 19, 2009 at 6:26 PM
Janet said...: What beautiful cakes - it looks like you all had a whole heap of fun. Happy Birthday Mercy - with love from South Africa.; March 20, 2009 at 7:56 AM
Anonymous said...: I've never seen a family who goes all out for birthdays like yours. It looks beautiful. Wow, she must have been exited!! Now how do you top that one next year?

Happy Birthday sweet Mercy!

Hugs,
Marie; March 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM
LJR said...: What a cute party! I can't believe she is 3 already, she is starting to look so grown up.

Happy (belated now) Birthday Mercy girl you are so pretty!; March 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM
Anonymous said...: Sweet! I hope she had a wonderful birthday! She is growing up so beautifully... she has such a lovely face!^^; March 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Anonymous said...: You've outdone yourself again, Cindy and girls! What a beautiful colorful theme party; loads of fun. Mercy is growing up! **sniff**
~Christal; March 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Anonymous said...: What a great party idea! Happy Birthday sweet girl!
Blessings,
Michelle; March 24, 2009 at 11:56 AM

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Joel's Story

Joel, our 11th of 13 and a twin of Josiah, at age 3 was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer, on December 6th, 2006. Joel had three perfect years of health and he and Josiah celebrated their 3rd birthday Sept. 13th, 2006. The first of Oct. Joel started having unexplained fevers for a few days and would return to active play. After the fourth round of fevers we took him to our family Dr. which they said his iron was low, so we treated that for a few weeks and took him back only to have his hemo. showing lower than before. We were referred to a hematologists and saw him a few weeks with blood checks twice a week. At a visit on Dec. 4th we showed the Dr. the bumps, (which were tumors but we did not know at the time) on Joel's head and he was very concerned and we were told we needed to admit him immediately and start extensive tests the following day. Joel went through rigorous testing and then the dreaded results were given. Joel was at a stage IV the most extensive stage, but we were hopeful that the Lord would use the means of Chemotherapy treatments to restore Joel's body. Joel endured 8 1/2 days in the hospital, came home for Christmas, and returned for his second round of chemo Jan. 3, 2007. Joel had a seizure that night after midnight and went into a coma due to a tumor bleeding in his head area and causing his brain to swell. After tests the following days, the Dr. declared Joel "brain dead" and took us to court to force us to take Joel off life support, as we did not agree with the medical field's definition of death. Our family sought to stand with the scripture, "life is in the blood,"and until Joel's heart quit beating naturally, he was living. We were making arrangements to bring him home and on January 23, 2007 his little heart stopped beating and he went to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven. Our lives are changed forever. God is faithful in the midst of this trial and we look with great hope to be with him someday.